From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 7 02:37:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FBEE1065675 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 02:37:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D442F8FC12 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 02:37:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from haran.polands.org ([75.87.219.217]) by hrndva-omta01.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20081207023707.DSLM17654.hrndva-omta01.mail.rr.com@haran.polands.org>; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 02:37:07 +0000 Received: from jericho.polands.org (jericho.polands.org [172.16.1.33]) by haran.polands.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mB72b6TL096250; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 20:37:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Message-ID: <493B36D2.2040509@polands.org> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:37:06 -0600 From: Doug Poland User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081124) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <493AFD81.6020705@polands.org> <20081207000913.V1934@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20081207000913.V1934@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:37:09 -0000 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the >> gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up. >> >> If my assumption is correct, how can I perform a "one-time" backup >> such that I could do a bare-metal restore? The essence of the >> question being I want to > > assuming you do gmirror first and then gstripe of gmirror then > use dd to read last sectors of each disk drive and each gmirror device. > and backup disklabels > Thanks for the suggestion. I did, in fact, create a gstripe of two gmirrors. If you don't mind me asking, how would one use the dd output you described above to restore those data? Would it include the gjournal metadata as well? -- Regards, Doug